Order, chaos, and the city
Order, chaos, and the city space and urban form into the twenty-first century Paskvalin, Jadranka
ISBN: 0612322149
Summary:
This thesis endeavours to: (1) discuss the issues of the "lived
world" defined in social, environmental, political and economic
terms, and how they affect cities; (2) understand how current urban
theories approach these issues; and (3) offer reformulations of what
urban theory can do, and to promote a new way of thinking and looking
at cities.
The thesis suggests that it is not accurate to simplify the problems
of cities, and to advocate "better" planning and design. Too many
current design strategies, and almost all the other procedures of
environmental design and/or sciences that have attempted to solve the
problems of our cities today, have been too reductionist. They have a
prescriptive attitude, and are of limited value in dealing with the
issues of the lived world. In the end of the twentieth century, they
are not able to understand or accommodate new changes that accompany
our world and cities.
The role of architect and urbanist is to use our environmental
knowledge and our understanding of cities to reveal the absurdity of
our current condition and to accelerate change. Therefore, my thesis
is, that for proper understanding of what the city is today, we need
to understand its functional order, which is possible only through
holistic observation that includes a variety of disciplines. The
thesis indicates that the present city is in accord with the dominant
attitudes in present day society, and is a part of a complex
self-governing order which is the order of life.
Notes:
Adviser: CARL R. NELSON, JR.
Masters Thesis (M.L.ARCH.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA (CANADA),
1998.
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